Gurmehar Kaur Row: Don’t Hang Me Over A Laugh, Says Randeep Hooda

Gurmehar Kaur, a student of the Delhi University, has been criticized for her Facebook post against ABVP

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Actor Randeep Hooda, who has been accused of mocking Kargil martyr’s daughter Gurmehar Kaur, wrote in a Facebook post that he did not intend to instigate hate threats against her. “Don’t hang me over a laugh,” Randeep wrote in his post.

Gurmehar Kaur, a student of the Delhi University, has been criticized for her Facebook post against ABVP after the violent clashes at Ramjas College in the national capital.

It all began with cricketer Virender Sehwag’s tweet, where he appears to mock Gurmehar holding a placard with the message: “Pakistan did not kill my father, war killed him."

Sehwag, who has been kind of a sensation on the social media platform, shared a picture on Twitter holding a sign which read: “I didn’t score two triple centuries, my bat did.”

And just like that, it went viral.

Randeep Hooda, star of films like Highway and Sarbjit, supported the tweet which also invited criticism from several quarters and subsequently the apologies and the clarification. In his much recent post, he tried to redeem himself and wrote: ”She wasn’t tagged in his joke nor in my amusement. But some journalists, among others, are trying hard to give this all kinds of colours to malign us and prove their point. They want to attach labels to us to further their agendas. That’s bullying and if you think you can bully us, you have another thing coming.”

Read Randeep’s Facebook post here:

Gurmehar, daughter of Kargil martyr Captain Mandeep Singh, condemned the attack on students at Ramjas College which witnessed large-scale violence between members of the AISA and the ABVP.

The genesis of the clash was an invite to JNU students Umar Khalid and Shehla Rashid to address a seminar on Culture of Protests which was withdrawn by the college authorities following opposition by the ABVP.

In an interview, she had also said that she received rape threats from ABVP after which an FIR was registered against unknown persons about the case. She has withdrawn from the protest march scheduled for Tuesday by the Delhi University and Jawaharlal University in response to that of the Tiranga March by the ABVP.